Kinman Chan, 30, was charged in a criminal complaint with interfering with the duties of a flight attendant on allegations that he fought with crew members of US Airways Flight 1447 from Philadelphia to Los Angeles on Sunday. His federal public defender, Jay Finkelstein, declined to comment.

Crew members said Chan made odd gestures before he entered the plane's rear restroom shortly after takeoff and began to scream, according to the complaint.

Chan told the FBI that he "came back to reality" and exited the restroom, at which point the crew noticed his "pants were down, his shirt was untucked and all the compartments in the restroom were opened."

A man who told police he unknowingly ate food containing LSD fell from the roof of the Phoenix Theater in downtown Petaluma early Sunday morning, police said today.

The 19-year-old man fell about 25 feet from an upper roof to a lower roof, Lt. Tim Lyons said. He suffered a broken back and other injuries and was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital....

"He was lying down when we found him but he jumped right up and was walking around," [Phoneix Theater manager Tom] Gaffey said. "We didn't find any clothes on the roof. He must have gotten naked downtown. We're still trying to piece this together."

Hmm, piece something else together while you're at it: how does a guy with a broken back jump right up and walk around?

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In this one room, however, the drugs are legal. Insite is the only government-sanctioned supervised injection site in North America.... Addicts arrive with drugs scored on the streets and inject them in a supervised environment, 18 hours a day, 365 days a year. A counter was laden with clean needles, sterile water, cookers, filters, tourniquets, alcohol swabs, condoms. The database includes more than 2,000 users, identified only by code names, and an average day will see 645 injections. There are always two staffers and two nurses on duty, standing by with oxygen masks and syringes of the overdose drug naloxone. To date they have intervened in more than a thousand overdoses without a single death.

For the pilot, we went to Huautla de Jimenez, Mexico, to talk to local Mazatec people about the use of mushrooms in healing ceremonies.

Please check out the trailer, and to keep up with developments on the show, updates will be posted at http://spygirlpix.blogspot.com

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Andy Roberts is a writer and author of 'Albion Dreaming -- A cultural history of LSD in Britain'. The first book to deal exclusively with the impact of LSD on British culture 'Albion Dreaming' is a thoughtfully researched space into the history of this relationship, which investigates military, scientific and social perspectives.

Andy has been kind enough to lend PsypressUK his thoughts on psychedelic literature, the challenges of writing 'Albion Dreaming' and his inspirations for undertaking the project. He also outlines some ideas about the web of social interactions that dominate today's psychedelic scene...

In a 15,000-square-foot warehouse just down the road from the Oakland Airport, an entrepreneur is opening a one-stop shop for medicinal-marijuana cultivation that's believed to be the largest in the state.

Don't know the first thing about growing pot? The folks at iGrow have a doctor on site to get you a cannabis card and sell you all the necessary equipment for indoor, hydroponic cultivation -- from pumps, nutrients and tubing to lights and fans.

Don't know how to set it up? For a fee, on-site technicians will show you how to build it in your home and even maintain it weekly...

The opening of this Wal-Mart of weed arrived as California residents consider whether to support a statewide ballot measure to allow recreational marijuana. Proponents plan to turn in about twice as many signatures as needed to qualify the measure for the November ballot.

WHEN THE Assembly's Public Safety Committee voted 12 days ago to approve the legalization and regulation of marijuana in California, knee-jerk reactions were sure to follow.

This was only a first step toward legislation, but San Mateo police Chief Susan Manheimer quickly described the looming possibility as "mind-boggling."

John Lovell, speaking for the California Peace Officers Association, said it was "the last thing our society needs."

It wasn't hard to envision lawmen up and down the state nodding in agreement.

The viewpoint is understandable. It is part of the internal wiring of police agencies. The War on Drugs declared by President Nixon in 1971 has spanned four decades and seven administrations.

The thing is, it has failed. A far better idea is to legalize and regulate marijuana sales.

There are at least 1,500 current and former law enforcement professionals who agree. They are members of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), who base their opinions on years of experience.

I wish they'd put more work into some of the captions, though he quotes they do use are quite good and do include both positive and negative comments.